The works listed will allow your students to further explore the theme
of The African American Experience During the Civil War and other themes
related to Jubilee:

Fiction
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. Mew York: Macmillan,
1939. Set in Georgia at the time of the Civil War. this historical novel
tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara, a woman who lives through the war
and watches as her plantation, Tara, is burned by General William T.
Sherman's troops. (average)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Modern Library,
1985. The brutality of this classic novel, which was first published
in 1852, shocked readers. The main character, Uncle Tom, endures life
as an enslaved person. He is eventually beaten to death as a result
of the orders given by a white plantation owner from the North, Simon
Legree. (average)

Bierce, Ambrose. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1970. This haunting story traces the fate of Peyton Farquhar,
an Alabama planter, during the Civil War. (average)

Nonfiction
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave. New York: Anchor Books, 1989. In this remarkable
autobiography, Douglass describes his experiences as an enslaved person
and how he strove to become free. (challenge)

Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1974. The author traces his origins back several generations
to Kunta Kinte, a 17-year-old boy who was kidnapped in Gambia, enslaved,
and brought to the United States.

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dell, 1968. In this
work of non-fiction, Lester draws on slave narratives to create a history
of slavery in the United States. (average)